Month: August 2016

Packer with base images

…or: How I made Puppetdev. I don’t like making things twice. You could call that „innovative“ or „efficient“. Basically, it’s just laziness. For Puppetdev, which is built using Packer, I needed base images, so I wouldn’t have to cope with ISO urls, kickstart files and such. Luckily, the wonderful guys at boxcutter provide Packer templates Read More

Easy puppet testing with Vagrant

We’re using Puppet to automate many tasks and – together with other components – allow continuous delivery. However, testing puppet manifests, Hiera settings and installing puppet modules can be tedious – especially when you want to test on a clean system each time. Announcing „puppetdev“, a Vagrant box for easily doing those things: Install puppet modules Read More